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Working on figuring this nonsense out  Okay, this is one of my fishing spots, and this is the aforementioned chain pickerel. He fought like the Dickens and I landed him with a 5 inch Senko swimming a T-rig. Gumbel2Gumbel fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Jun 15, 2018 |
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Hey little guy! I enjoy how pike-ish fish look like they have a wry grin. Anybody getting out this weekend?
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Jun 15, 2018 19:05
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:Hey little guy! I enjoy how pike-ish fish look like they have a wry grin. I'm gonna try and crush some Walleye despite not knowing anything about them as of finishing this sentence.
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Jun 15, 2018 19:21
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Good day yesterday. Found a couple new spots on the St. Vrain.  
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Jun 17, 2018 18:54
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All around good fishing for all! I caught my first rainbow trout today.  It was a good day on the boat trolling. I had never done it before, so missed a lot of fish.    My trout 
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Jun 17, 2018 19:58
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:
gently caress yeah, I love catching chainsides. Even moreso than bass since around here there's about 20 bass for every one pickerel. Anyone ever eat pickerel? How is it?
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Jun 17, 2018 22:08
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Rape Stink posted:gently caress yeah, I love catching chainsides. Even moreso than bass since around here there's about 20 bass for every one pickerel. I've read that the meat is good but it's really bony, like pike as I understand it. I also have no firsthand knowledge of this so I may be full of poo poo. Sockington, that looks like a fantastic trip. Lake trout get so loving huge! I don't know about you, but I'd have that motherfucker filleted and smoking over alderwood before I cracked my second beer. Trolling should definitely be in your arsenal when you have your destroyer in the water. In a previous post I mentioned that I got a Do-It mold for a walleye spinner. I dug a little deeper as to what that meant, and "walleye spinner" apparently means "Erie Dearie, but not trademarked." Any experience with those? By reputation they have been catching walleye in the Great Lakes for forty years. Also I am now sitting on 120 lbs of clean lead and like 25 different jig and sinker molds, and some of them are pretty interesting. Anybody fish a Grave Digger before? 
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Jun 18, 2018 17:46
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I wrapped it in tinfoil with cut up lemon and onions, some dill, butter, and a half hour on the BBQ. I tried the kayak for an hour today and only got a free balsa wood bobber out of the deal. Some poor shmuck got it stuck a while ago under a road bridge on a log, and I just coasted over and retrieved it.  Spotted lots of longnose spotted gar pike, but they weren’t biting.
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Jun 18, 2018 23:59
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Dunno why this youtube comment made me laugh but here you go Tony Hong Fishing 3 weeks ago (edited) Eating carp? I’m Asian....but not that Asian.
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Jun 19, 2018 01:53
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I was up in the Sierra Nevadas last weekend for my annual trip. I got one, my brother got one, my cousin got one, my two friends got one, gramps lost one, my brother in law lost one as well, and my cousin Jeremy who you might remember holding the big striper got 15. lol. Great weekend though. In other news, I got invited on my IT vendor's annual overnight tuna trip on a chartered boat again. SO PUMPED. Last year I caught a 60 lb yellowfin; I think I posted a pic of it. joem83 fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Jun 19, 2018 |
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Jun 19, 2018 05:31
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Couple perch out of the Severn (UK) https://imgur.com/a/jXPJXeG https://imgur.com/a/aQ3idHr https://imgur.com/a/IArvQZ7 Dunno what I'm doing wrong...gotta pop out so will sort later Arthur Bowlsworth fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Jun 19, 2018 |
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Jun 19, 2018 15:00
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You guys see the new Shimano DC? Crazy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy6fYpK1zhY edit: Oh, I guess this isn't new technology. Awkward. New to me though! joem83 fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Jun 19, 2018 |
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Jun 19, 2018 16:37
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Magnets in general are old (for years I've toyed with the idea of magging my avet sx because it is merciless to cast), but something as complex as that Curado is new to me too.
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Jun 19, 2018 17:46
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Arthur Bowlsworth posted:Couple perch out of the Severn (UK) BritPerch rules. Those fins are really pretty! joem83 posted:In other news, I got invited on my IT vendor's annual overnight tuna trip on a chartered boat again. SO PUMPED. Last year I caught a 60 lb yellowfin; I think I posted a pic of it. I'm so loving jealous.
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Jun 19, 2018 17:56
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Enigma posted:Magnets in general are old (for years I've toyed with the idea of magging my avet sx because it is merciless to cast), but something as complex as that Curado is new to me too. Those are the best reals and getting the MC system installed is what I think sex would be like if I had sex. I used a few different sizes pitching 4oz-8oz bars and it was amazing.
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Jun 19, 2018 20:31
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LingcodKilla posted:Those are the best reals and getting the MC system installed is what I think sex would be like if I had sex. If you're having sex without involving magnets you're doing it wrong anyway. I love the reel and use it mostly for shallow reef fishing from a boat, but I occasionally beach fish and it would be nice to be able to cast it. I won the base (non MC version) in a raffle. I looked into it and my options to add magnets seem to be buying the MC frame from Avet (which is only slightly less than buying a brand new reel) or something less elegant that involves epoxy and hardware store magnets.
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Jun 19, 2018 20:42
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Last night I melted some lead that belonged to a dead man and I made some things. The lead was old and oxidized, but after melting and fluxing it came out shiny. That is a stack of 3/8oz walking sinkers for lindy rigs and some 1/16oz and 1/32oz crappie jigs made with Mustad sproat hooks. Not pictured are seven one-pound ingots that are a lot easier to work with than the redneck muffin tin ingots the dead man had. Anybody going out this weekend? I'm about to leave town for a while so I'm headed out to a new lake near Hood Canal on Saturday. Last time I was in my buddy's canoe our toes almost froze off so I'm looking forward to being out on the water now that it's warm again.
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Jun 22, 2018 17:19
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My wife and kids went on a trip this weekend so I'm home all alone. I more or less played hooky from work today to go fishing. I decided I wanted to branch out and hit the salt, so I went down to the San Diego bay and went spotty fishing. I caught 10 total and missed just as many in 3 hours, was an awesome day! I don't even remember the last time I caught 10 fish in a day. Most were pretty small, about this size, but they were still really fun to catch. One of them exploded out of the water when I set the hook. Got that dude through the gills, the crabs might be getting a meal tonight. After 9, I started to get pretty thirsty and I didn't bring any water so I said ONE MORE FISH. Casted out to nothing in particular, WHAM, I was like "IS THIS A HALIBUT!?!?!?" but then I saw it was just a big fat spotted bay bass. These things have sharp gill plates, spines, and sharp teeth. I don't really know how to handle them yet, the last 9 I just shook off the hook with my pliers. I realize I want to take a picture of this fish, so I bring him up and grab my phone. Alas, he bent the hook and shook off riiiiiiiiiight down into the riprap. He went down pretty deep, but I wasn't gonna leave him there. I moved like 8 big rocks and managed to get him out with my pliers. He was down there for a few minutes while I excavated him, but he swam away just fine. I think this is pretty big for a spotty but I didn't weigh him or anything.   I probably coulda just grabbed him with my hands instead of pulling him out with the pliers but man, they flare out those gill plates as soon as you bring them up. It's kinda scary, lol. Anyway, I'm questioning all the hours I've spent at my local lake getting skunked, when I could just go down to the ocean and apparently catch fish all day long. edit: Bonus pic! My phone likes to randomly choose a photo and stylize it. It chose this one, which is where I was fishing today. I started under that building in the distance, caught 2, and worked my way back. 
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Jun 23, 2018 01:24
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Nice man  . A lot of our shore spots are pretty limited for being able to walk, due to a mix of public access and overgrowth. Makes shore fishing a bit of a bummer waiting for fish to happen by instead of working the area.Three of us went out last night in the rain and the bite had cooled down a lot. We couldn’t manage a three man limit over a four hour stretch in the boat, and we drifted a lot more area too.  I always clean all the fish for the guys, but these smaller ones clean so quick I was done in no time.
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Jun 23, 2018 16:00
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I am traveling to Onancock, VA this next week and I was wondering if anyone has done any fishing in the Chesapeake bay area brackish creeks, or in the lower bay. Would you use a normal inland surf setup, a bucktail, or something like a normal bass setup? I have no idea what to fish for in VA since I am a freshwater fisherman in Texas. I have a 7" surf rod, and 3 ugly sticks that can take the abuse of a very large fish. My surf rod has a 5000 series reel, and my spinning rods have 3000 series reels that are all salt water capable with at least 17+ lbs of drag. Also, has anyone encountered any issues flying with fishing rods? United seems to have some crazy 2 rod per person rule which will make things interesting. I own a Plano Telescoping airline rod case and it would not take up any more room on their plane... Has anyone just passed one of these through with no questions?
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Jun 23, 2018 17:44
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 Fresh dick lures arrived  These ones are 50 grams so I'll be able to cast them a fair bit further than the original. I also took advantage of a pretty ridiculous deal to stock up on a lifetime supply of Zman plastics.  The colours were a surprise but I didn't have too many  moments going through the box. This was about the strangest colour in there, still have no idea what fish will go for it.
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Jun 25, 2018 12:28
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Z-man plastics are great, I caught all 10 of those fish last Friday on the same curl tail grub and it looks fine still. They even catch mollusks! Caught that bad boy on my lunch break today. 
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Jun 25, 2018 13:59
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So right now I'm sitting on a platform at the Frankfurt train station waiting for my train to Berlin. The dude on the bench next to me has an Abu Garcia travel rod case. I was sitting here wishing that my German wasn't terrible so I could ask him questions. While I was trying to think of vocabulary, he opened the case and pulled out a can of Becks that fit perfectly inside and cracked it. It is 7:34am.
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Jun 26, 2018 06:34
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:So right now I'm sitting on a platform at the Frankfurt train station waiting for my train to Berlin. The dude on the bench next to me has an Abu Garcia travel rod case. I was sitting here wishing that my German wasn't terrible so I could ask him questions. While I was trying to think of vocabulary, he opened the case and pulled out a can of Becks that fit perfectly inside and cracked it. It is 7:34am. Was the entire thing loaded with beer? Also, lol.
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Jun 26, 2018 15:26
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:So right now I'm sitting on a platform at the Frankfurt train station waiting for my train to Berlin. The dude on the bench next to me has an Abu Garcia travel rod case. I was sitting here wishing that my German wasn't terrible so I could ask him questions. While I was trying to think of vocabulary, he opened the case and pulled out a can of Becks that fit perfectly inside and cracked it. It is 7:34am. I've been traveling for a long time and through a bunch of time zones before and wanted a beer. I think I got a beer at like 5:30am local time in the Tokyo airport once after a 2-stop flight from the US.
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Jun 26, 2018 17:53
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gay picnic defence posted:
Where was this deal at? Local shop or online?
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Jun 27, 2018 02:42
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Planet X posted:Where was this deal at? Local shop or online? An online store called Hooked Online was doing it. They’ve sold out now.
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Jun 27, 2018 04:30
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I've seen dick lures on Amazon too, so I guess the dick lure word is out.joem83 posted:Was the entire thing loaded with beer? Also, lol. This I could not confirm, but I really hope so. I was mostly bummed that he didn't offer me one; I would have shotgunned a can of Becks at that point. Also you need to pass a test for a fishing rod license in Germany and then get like two more permits in order to fish here. 
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Jun 27, 2018 06:37
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I caught the big one today, boys!! New PB.
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Jun 27, 2018 19:37
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:I've seen dick lures on Amazon too, so I guess the dick lure word is out. I'll be back in town Friday night and crabbing on Sat and Sun then skipping Mon, Tues. Back to crabbing on Wens, Thurs and Friday before flying back to work Sat.
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Jun 27, 2018 20:54
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I caught an even smaller fish today, lol. Lipping him was hilarious. No pics of the small one, but I actually caught a "big" one. The bass in the accessible areas of the river are pretty small in my experience. I swear, I can throw that 1/16 oz Sierra Slammers swim bait anywhere and catch fish. Ol faithful.
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Jun 28, 2018 20:05
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I normally fish for Bass around Arizona but last week I went fishing for Trout up in the mountains and drat those guys seem to take a lot more damage from hooks than Bass do. I'll probably go for Trout again this weekend but I think I might avoid treble hooks.
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Jun 29, 2018 16:10
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Single hooks, and mash those barbs! Seriously, barbless hooks are much better for all fish, not just trout.
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Jun 29, 2018 16:33
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Third day this week I've gone fishing, aka running errands before I get lunch. No babies today, barely any bites, except this one! Caught on a 1/32oz mini jig, 4 lb test, ultra light rod. Was so much fun!
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Jun 29, 2018 20:40
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I tossed the Bass Pro Shop whopper plopper knock off around a few times this afternoon. Good heft and action, had a top water blowup on it too. It seems a lot better made than the other BPS poo poo too. Also it's 8.99 instead of 16.99 for the plopper.
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Jun 29, 2018 23:54
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I took a kayak out yesterday morning for the first time in forever, and caught 4 small trout! The first one is the only one I got a picture of, the rest were the same but smaller. I had what had to have been a slot trout on the line but it shook loose right before I could boat flip it. I need to get better at landing fish/buy a net. They were hitting on topwater (super spook jr in the pic, also a large mirrolure mirrodine knockoff with a rattle in it), some clear/white/chartreurse soft plastic mirrolures, and some gulp shrimp. I ran out of shrimp, there were pinfish or puffers around that kept eating them. One trout swallowed my last 1/8th oz jighead and the mirrolure on it, so I had to cut it loose when I let it go. And I had something hit when I cast near shore that pulled like hell and took a lot of line before shaking loose, I'd guess snook based on the couple I've caught in the past, or maybe a jack, though this went on a run instead of circling like jacks seem to do. I wish I had gotten a better hookset! First time getting fish to hit on topwater, it was as fun as they say it is! Treble hooks but all the barbs are bent down.  Also found this little guy trying to hitch a ride after I had put my kayak back on my car. Excuse the Snapchat stickers 
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Jun 30, 2018 03:06
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My local sports store has started carrying zman products, including a decent selection of their chatterbaits. They even have the super pricey jackhammers thay everyone fishing for money seems to use. I picked up a couple of the 3/8 jackhammers, one in green pumpking with white and chartreuse and a black and blue. Now if it would just not be so blistering hot out, I could go throw them.
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Jun 30, 2018 04:40
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Got my first fish on a dick lure   Conditions were a bit dangerous for rock fishing so I was fishing halfway up the rocks to keep out of danger. That meant landing fish was a very tricky proposition unless I timed it right and got a wave to wash it onto the rocks in front of me. Then I got reefed by something large and lost the pink dick lure, so out came a different one, and I got a few more fish.   That third one was nearly 2' long  There is something really funny about a school of fish climbing all over each other to get at a metal dick skimming along the surface. They actually make good topwater lures because the balls make a much bigger splash than your typical baitfish shaped slug. I reckon I hooked and lost about a dozen in addition to the 3 I landed. Then is was off to the beach to put the fish to use as fresh bait 
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Jun 30, 2018 09:53
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It warms my heart to see pictures of fish with the dick in their mouth, nice work man!
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gay picnic defence posted:
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